Impressive - Page 11

Ok...so it is 120 episodes and not 40...around 6 months of Mahakumbh...not bad at all!

Rudra is taken to an astrologer by Mai...Rudra himself knows his kundali and tells star's position to astrologer and astrologer gets angry...Mai brings rudra back...There he meets Ram Lakhawan...I think he is going to be Rudra's friend...

Astrologer thanks Rudra...Rudra's mother takes him away...but Astrologer stops her and tells her Rudra will always be surrounded by dangers...Mai comes home and sees Rudra taking bath and remembers Astrologer's words...

Thanks for the update ela.Another good episode.The cast is really good .I like this new boy too he seems to be a perfect match for the brooding rudra and balance him in a way.The dive sequence was awesome.loved it very much. I too liked the sadhu and rudra scene.its sad he would be dead liked his soothing presence and seema as usual was brilliant she brought all the conflicting emotions a mother faces when realizing his son is special and be sorrounded by dangers .hopefully the trend continues.
The polish lady also adds an interesting angle.do you think she knows some secrets?

Originally posted by: prav2

Thanks for the update ela.Another good episode.The cast is really good .I like this new boy too he seems to be a perfect match for the brooding rudra and balance him in a way.The dive sequence was awesome.loved it very much. I too liked the sadhu and rudra scene.its sad he would be dead liked his soothing presence and seema as usual was brilliant she brought all the conflicting emotions a mother faces when realizing his son is special and be sorrounded by dangers .hopefully the trend continues.
The polish lady also adds an interesting angle.do you think she knows some secrets?

tfs ela! will watch it in a bit and then comment!

The child artist playing Rudra is great. His acting is so intense. looking forward to see him more.

My dear Ela,

You have no idea how nice it feels to be welcomed with such warmth and (literally!) open arms!! I am so glad to have found you, and so many more of our old friends, here; we can have a lot of fun as we used to in the good old days in the early JA period. This serial is going to hold up, never fear, and it will not deteriorate or flag.

My dear Mandy, Mishti, Priya, Sandhya, Charu, sp108, and my other wonderful young friends, I am very happy that we have regrouped here and have found a serial where we do not have to spend 90% of our time lamenting over its deplorable scripting and the rest! We must try and get some more across as well - Khushi, Lashy (though her baby must be nearly due by now), Anu (PadBear), Raksha, Anjali, Munni, and as many others as you can think of. Do try to get them over, there is my good girls! I would do my bit if it were not for my bust knee.

My knee is going to take at least another 2 weeks before I can sit at the laptop for an hour at a stretch, but I am going to try and do a round up of the first week of Mahakumbh, writing it in bits and pieces over this weekend, and put it up. I will PM you all as usual, and you can see if you like it.

Our old obsession Jodha Akbar is all washed up; though Jodha is looking very beautiful these days and Jalal 10 times better looking than his son. The adult Salim, who should be 16 as per the CVs but looks 26, is very disappointing both in terms of appearance and acting. I have no hopes for the grown up Anarkali either. I was dabbling with Airlines, but it nosedived after just 10 episodes, and now seems to have crashlanded. I have abandoned it.

So I plan to stick to just this forum with you and the rest for the next 6 months of Mahakumbh.

I too want this serial to succeed, Ela, thus creating a niche for good TV. Let us keep our fingers crossed! You have put your finger unerringly on one of its major plus points - the silences that speak. What a contrast with the standard issue bhashans, and what a relief!

You know, my dear, you have a positive flair for this kind of one liner; I still remember that stunningly perceptive line of yours about Jalal being the ground on which Jodha stood.

More soon, folks! I must not overdo things and invite a setback, but I will manage.

Shyamala/Aunty/Akka

Originally posted by: elasingh

shyamala...🤗

I am so happy to see you here on this forum...I was thinking of sending you a pm regarding this show then decided that since it was complete fiction you wont like it...How happy I am to see some one like you watching it...

I hope ur health is improving and ur knee is fine now...So that we get more and more posts from you..😛( selfish of me)...Shyamala I did not know Utkarsh is the writer of this serial..You told me..I landed on this serial out of spite..😆..I was mad with the leap of JA and started watching it out of protest and I was so impressed by this serial...I wonder if the makers of JA realise what kind of compitition they are facing now?

Anyway coming to the serial there is nothing which I am not liking..be it story, direction, screen play or simply yet effective dialogues or the superb cast...All are great...It is not our regular kind of serial dear..this one is different and very impressive...No one is white or black here but all are realistic and grey..and I am loving it...I wonder if things go well and then Ashoka comes , will it impress us as much as this serial..I so want this serial to succeed Shyamala..I want makers to realise that there is market for such serials also provided they are well made...

It is my good luck that you have made a post on my thread Shyamala..We will need you to help us understand this intense and serious serial..Apparently it is made by intelligent ppl and in these two episodes I have felt that charaters speak a lot through their silence...

Originally posted by: sashashyam

My dear Ela,

I am nowhere near normalcy as yet, but I loved the first 2 episodes of Mahakumbh as much as you did, so I thought I would use my 15 minutes daily laptop quota to add this to your thread.

I was delighted to see that my favourite writer from DKDM, Utkarsh Naithani, has, once that was wound up, embarked on this Dan Brownish mytho-historical thriller, Mahakumbh. Right down to the Polish opening scenes, complete with a cold-eyed Bishop in a black cassock and a red sash (if he had been a Cardinal, he would of course have had a scarlet cape), and the Governing Board of the secret society with representation from every continent, Nice,very nice.

I simply revelled in the first two episodes, and plan to be glued to it till the end. The pacing and the script are both superb, which comes as no surprise given the writer and the production house. The direction is spare and striking, and the lines are the more telling for their being so minimal.

So are the actors, and the casting director seems inspired. Not only in the choice of Saraswatichandra to play the adult Rudra, and the very competent Seema Biswas, but also in the real discovery - the teenage Rudra. With his eloquent eyes and his silences that speak more than words, his sombre, brooding persona, like a young Heathcliff out of Wuthering Heights, and his spectacular athleticism. I have never seen such a thrilling rooftop chase as the one where he outruns his pursuers and ends up back with his initial rescuer. No wonder he is, I learnt here, going to play the young Asoka.

I loved the hidden similes in Rudra's escape from captivity- with Samson when he pulls down the pillars in his prison, with the infant Krishna when he drags the broken pillars after him, just as Krishna dragged the mortar to which Yashoda had chained him.

All in all, Mahakumbh is clearly going to be a rare treat for weeks and months to come.

One little carping doubt. The child Rudra looks about 6. 12 years have passed. Then how come the teenage Rudra is no more than 14, if not less? Chronologically, he should have been a much more grown up 18. I can see that the writer was stuck with the 12 year leaps and could do nothing about them. I also see that if the child Rudra had been 2 years old, they could not have shown him remembering what happened to his father on that pontoon in 1989. But there could have been a way out of that for such a clever and resourceful young man like Utkarsh. As it is , the teenage Rudra look 4/5 years too young.

Bar that, he is, to borrow Gen X lingo, mindblowing.

A little footnote about the Amritmanthan. As far as I know, and as the most familiar tradition goes, the halahala vish was swallowed in its entirety by Mahadev, for no one else could have survived it. It was Parvati who placed her hand on his throat and prevented it from descending any further. Whence his blue throat and the name Neelakanta.

As for the amrit, Lord Vishnu as Mohini tried to keep all of it for the Devas, except for Rahu, who disguised himself as a Deva and drank a portion of it. He had his head cut off as a punishment, but he was already immortal, and so we have Rahu, the head, and Ketu, the rest of him, in perpetuity.

Shyamala

suspense kuch zyaadaa hi badh gayaa hain, swami balivesh and the polish cardinal, are they part of the same secret socity? aur kaun hain amrit ke piche? the woman and her son who sheltered shivaanand are part of this mystirious game? prashna kayeen hain uttar bas ek hain, par woh kab milegaa, koi nahi jaantaa.

Originally posted by: ghalibmirza

tfs ela! will watch it in a bit and then comment!